Well, yes. I guess I don't differentiate between the two. The Spanish cannon galleons were practically unstoppable in the expansion. It would be fun to get an AoE II party going sometime between us forum members. I haven't played in forever but recently got it set up on my laptop, so I'm game

There are huge differences between the two. The gameplay and glitches that were in the kings were eradicated and more civs and technologies made it the ultimate RTS IMO